Using GIS: When a Map is Worth a Thousand Words
Journalists are using geographic information software (GIS) to map data for stories and graphics about toxic health threats, prescription medicine abuse and EMS response times. Here are more ideas for...
View ArticleLisa Girion
Lisa Girion joined the Los Angeles bureau of Reuters as a correspondent in January after 16 years at the Los Angeles Times, most recently as an investigative reporter assigned to the Metro desk, where...
View ArticleQ&A with Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman: Ghostwriting sneaks past most journal editors
Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman is the principal investigator of PharmedOut, an educational campaign aimed at showing physicians how marketing influences their prescribing decisions. Originally funded by the...
View ArticleFavorite Health Journalism of 2010, Part 2
As 2011 unfolds, I’d like to share some of my favorite health journalism – some but not all of it policy-related – from 2010. This is definitely not a best-of list, but rather journalism that can...
View ArticleHow The News did the Texas hospital patient safety analysis
To identify rates of potentially preventable medical harm, The Dallas Morning News analyzed nearly 9 million patient-level records from hospitals across Texas.
View ArticleRatings built on rep
So how can a hospital be judged so deficient by federal inspectors, yet rank among the best in U.S. News & World Report?It's all in the methodology.
View ArticleWhy health care’s flawed ‘pay for performance’ model needs rethinking
Leading health policy experts zeroed in on problems with the “pay for performance” health care model in our webinar this week. Here's why they say the program needs to "hit the refresh button," and how...
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